Inside look at historic Breakers mansion
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- The Vanderbilts once resided in the Breakers mansion, but they weren't alone. They had plenty of staff who didn't quite have a relationship with the family, but more of a respect.
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Been there. It's absolutely beautiful.
Wonderful peek into the downstairs history. The inside story of The Breakers is in the book FORTUNE'S CHILDREN; THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF VANDERBILT. An amazing story!
Someone can make spin-off Downton Abbey American version at this place..
It could be Cora Levinsons house!
The staff quarters look pretty nice to me.
Not bad for the Plebs
I toured the Breakers mansion a few years back. Words and photos can not describe the beauty and opulence of this place. It is a palatial and magnificent structure so unreal it is mind boggling. You just have to wonder how people could live here like kings and queens with such insane luxury.
Apparently, the Breakers mansion or “cottage” as it was called, was used just as a summer home. The Vanderbilts would throw lavish parties trying to undo their neighbors’. Definitely a must to see - - the Newport mansions.
It's really impressive though I've never been there. They were really able to replicate the grandest European country houses.
I’ve been there today actually it was BEAUTIFUL!
It's garish and funereal.
I toured the Breakers. Beautiful.
Nice place
For those that have lived on cruise ships, the rooms would be considered spacious, windows the size of a porthole (although I didn't see one at the Breakers) would be considered luxury.
Commodore Vanderbilt is buried in a decaying mausoleum in Staten Island that has had to be shuttered with steel and concrete to keep out the grave robbers and vandals. The fortune was squandered away long ago, mostly by Alva wife of August Belmont, the fellow who loved his horses a lot more than most. Alva divorced William K. Vanderbilt after she spent most of his fortune foolishly
Dam sounds Depressing
@@orianna9200 Not sad at all. Those were the times and they knew it
@@pantarguitars ....Richness usually is a depressing state in such a very temporary world!
The Vanderbilt Mausoleum (designed by Richard Morris Hunt) has been damaged by the misfits who today call Staten Island their home. Their fortune was not "squandered". Most recently Gloria Vanderbilt (mother of Anderson Cooper) was interred there but outside of the Mausoleum.
When Commodore Vanderbilt was a boy, Staten Island was the site of his beautiful family farmhouse.
Today the Moravian Cemetery at New Dorp is a contradiction in that its placement is in the middle of an extremely bourgeois neighborhood.
They squandered their money because of these huge houses and the huge dowry they had to pay for marrying their daughter off to a broke Duke that had a bloodline but no money.
You can virtual tour the house from the comforts of your own (presumably smaller) home now. Or at least the parts of it the Newport Preservation Society want you to see, anyway. For whatever reason, even after kicking the heirs out, the top 2 floors are still off limits. So are huge chunks of the basement, the mezzanine floor and an entire bedroom suite on the 2nd floor which they are using as a garbage disposal.
So very difficult to find good help these days...m
I thought it was a tour of the mansion, not the staff quarters.....
The staff quarters is part of the mansion. And it is interesting to see inside of a part of a mansion that is often overlooked in most tours.
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If you want a freaking tour, drive to Newport and take one! Jesus.
Me too, but the staff quarters are interesting.
Spectacular!
The good ole days :)
Tough life those Vanderbilt's had
Pretty cool
the hallway and rooms are that of houses costing 1/2 a million dollars today LOL
Weren't they referred to as cottages?
Yes.
What a home and a life, but not by the slaves right. Anderson Cooper can tell you all about,im sure
I have been there before
How would 'The Breakers' in Rhode Island compare to the one in Palm Beach?
Cannot compare
Accommodations for the help certainly were spartan. Regardless of that, back then you could hire people for peanuts that were loyal and trustworthy. Try that today.
g bridgman who wants to work for peanuts?
Why dont they make a Vanderbilt series, like the dynasty series or like the revious comment downton abby
I'm from Asheville NC home of the biltmore estate the mansion of all mansions in America also owned by the Vanderbilts it puts this place to shame and the servants quarters are bigger than my bedroom
Biltmore does not put The Breakers "to shame". You're nuts. (.. and for the love of Christ capitalize "Biltmore"!!)
Biltmore may be larger but it is nowhere near the largest home in the world.
Biltmore may not be McMansion-awful, but compared to The Breakers, it's a huge mess. The outside looks like Waddesdon Manor exploded and somebody put the pieces back together all wrong. The inside is a maze and the rooms are an architectural mismatch. They both may be knock-off, scaled-down versions of European palaces, but The Breakers is the one that doesn't feel like it is.
3:20 why is that door not touching the ground?
LoL !
Second thought on that one, probably a suicide door, ya know, just in case!
Watch that first step. It's a lulu!
Gladys and Paul have been booted out of the servants quarters and escorted out. These were the last Vanderbilt descendants to reside there.
Why were they booted out?
@@maggiemae7749 They'd outstayed their welcome.
Reporter (Michaela) is the fifth column between the 4 others, news
Yes its nice that history is being preserved. The younger generations foolishly sqandered their wealth. The old man may not have been able to read but he had to be darn wise to accomplish. The thing is, his sons did not raise their children as stern and with the values he raised them with. They remembered their upbringing and chose to be easy on their kids...a very unwise move. What they did not realise is the way he raised them was the reason they had strong work ethics & were business minded individuals..." a fool and his money shall soon part" Not everyone can handle wealth.
I never heard of it.
Imagine that place going up in flames. It’s the Triangle Shirtwaist fire. How generous of those mean, old Uber rich folk!
Those poor "magical fairies"... Called servants...May they get some over due glory now.
Amen sister ! 😀
who cares?
The Rich Vanderbilt's began as farmers on Staten Island. The Family Icon, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt died as illiterate as he was as a boy. Read The book, " Fortune's Children, the fall of the house of Vanderbilt " authored by a grandchild of the old man. Better by far than fiction the book is all true, and as with many things stranger than any fiction.
I guess most people were illiterate then. The commodore was a smart businessman irrespective his education.
Where's Anderson Cooper's wing?
His family has nothing (today) to do with The Breakers. His Grandfather Reginald Vanderbilt was not left any part of the house or its furnishings. Instead they went to Reggie's younger sister Gladys Vanderbilt Széchenyi and the descendants of her five daughters through the Hungarian count.
It's the size of the White House or larger.
Why does the reporter keep referring to the mansion as "they?" It's an "it."
Sebastien Sade if it was correction institutions . They will be called “it”. Fine,beautiful mansions are called “They”😁
3:20 why fuck is that door there?
That awful background so called music makes it hard to understand what is being said. Why do productions use all that freaking background noise.
where is this at?
saw this house man it's ridiculously huge just driving down the street is like WTF !!! giant size mansions everywhere.
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She be fine.
Was thinking that myself.
Yea work them 16 hours a day then give em a cot to sleep on..
bkl 420 for the 1800s those were nice goose feather beds.
Don't forget to charge them rent!
You ever been in the military?
Shhhh he/him
I toured this house a few years back and didn't care for it at all. The Elms or Rosecliff are both much nicer homes. Marble House was pretty awful as well - too much marble.
OH DEAR!Well then, you've just dis-invited yourself to any grand affairs to be held in future at Marble House! No Tiffany Ball invitation coming your way!
Never meant to be seen is because it human nature to have a pang of guilt to be waited on hand and foot by the less fortunate. The less you see of them the less guilty you feel.
No! I think it is more ..Oh, look I did all this myself, Isn't that amazing. They literally had an army of invisible assistants.
pangs of guilt??? hmmmmm.. NO, as one who enjoys being waited on, nope.. no pangs here...
That lady that was talking about the small quarters and about the servants in about the small cramped quarters. She was actually kind of laughing! That s*** ain't funny at all! I'm wealthy and I don't treat my workers like slaves! Actually I pay them to live a very rich life!
Quite she/her
Impressive, but mostly too excessive for my taste. And paid for by exploited workers - makes it still less attractive.